Topic:
Edline/GradeQuick Professional Development

Population:
The presentation is geared towards an entry-level to mid-level understanding of these tools by teachers and administrators.

Outcomes:
  • Employ best practices for the use of Edline.
  • Categorize and correctly place assignments, calendar items, news, links and contents on Edline pages.
  • Construct an Edline page that is standard to all faculty and clearly read by students and parents.
  • Evaluate assignments for correct correlation to Quality Core Standards, State Standards, and other national or local standards based on subject area.
  • Assess students using the traditional letter grade and the skill area grading housed in GradeQuick.

Gap:
The existing staff has already been trained on the basics of GradeQuick and Edline. They understand the use of the tools for parent/student communication, grade keeping, skill tracking, attendance, etc. The existing staff does need to refine their use and standardize placement of materials on their Edline web pages and refine the entry of grades and skills. The skills area is a new section that will be the most intense. Most teachers have seen reports where this has been completed from standardized tests, but will need to understand how to evaluate their own assignments for correlation and then tie them together in the gradebook to produce reports based on class assignments as well.


Agenda:
Each of the segments below is arranged as a self-tutorial. New users will find that moving through all the segments will afford them a complete training. Current users will find that they may need a refresher on certain areas if their site is not up to par and can find training resources that will allow them to bring their site up to standards.

  • Getting Started - Activating Your Account - 15 minutes (PRE-TRAINING)
    • Activation Code Distribution
    • Activate Account
    • Set email preferences
    • Quick Edline Overview
  • Overview of Student & Parent Accounts - 15 minutes
    • Show the overview of edline and briefly discuss visibility controls
    • Login allows Edline to customize to the user
    • Importance of the parent login
    • My Edline links
    • Class Home Page Overview
    • Activities & Other Groups
    • Combined Calendar Overview
  • Managing Your Edline Class Page - 45 minutes
    • Building a class page from scratch
    • Managing Your Class
    • Changing the Course Name
    • Changing the Picture
  • Posting A Homework Assignment - 30 minutes
    • Using the Assignments Folder
    • Basic Requirements
    • Requirements for addition to the Combined Calendar
    • Advanced Posting Options
    • Homework Hand-In Posting
  • Posting A Test/Quiz in Interactive Classroom - 30 minutes
    • Basic Requirements for Posting Tests/Quizzes
    • Interactive Quiz Posting & Grading
  • Posting Other Calendar Items - 10 minutes
    • Adding Unclassified Items to the Class & Combined Calendar
  • Extra Calendar Controls - 15 minutes
    • Rollover features for schedule adjustments
  • Posting Information in News & Links - 25 minutes
    • Posting Awards, Scholarships, Contests, Events and Links to be used in class.
  • Contents Section - 15 minutes
    • Documents (Review from posting Homework & Tests Modules)
    • Groups
    • Folders for organization
  • Old Class Materials & Copying - 35 minutes
    • Storage from Year-to-Year
    • Utilizing Last Years (or further) Information
  • Forms & Surveys - 15 minutes
    • Review of Interactive Assignments
    • Homework Hand-Ins
    • Surveys

Assessment:
At the end of the training modules, learners will have created their class pages for parents and students to view complete with rich course content and resources. Rubrics are contained in a link on this wiki.